Authors

April 30, 2012: New Dataloader For Salesforce.com Has Some Very Promising Features

There’s a new Dataloader application out from a company called Jitterbit that looks to be lightyears beyond the current Dataloader applications for Windows and Mac.

March 22, 2012: Force.com Unit Testing Improves With Spring ‘12 Release

Unit testing on the Force.com platform has always been one of its biggest challenges. Data differences between orgs as well as governor limits have made it difficult to write valid, reliable tests that work in all orgs. With the Spring ‘12 release, Salesforce is implementing some changes that aim to alleviate some of these pains.

February 29, 2012: Migrating Profiles on the Force.com Platform

When migrating changes between environments on the Force.com platform, one of the most frustrating components to move is easily the user profiles. Here are a couple of ideas to help alleviate some of the pain of migrating these critical components.

November 29, 2011: Is Google Changing The Rules To Attend Google I/O?

Yesterday, on the Google Code Blog, an announcement was made saying the dates have changed for Google I/O and that it will now be three days instead of two. That’s interesting, but what really caught my attention was a statement informing us to “... brush up on your coding skills. They’ll come in handy when the new application process opens in February.”

October 27, 2011: New Feature Lets AppExchange Developers Login To Clients’ Organizations To Help Troubleshoot

Back with the Spring ‘11 release of the Salesforce.com platform, there was a new feature added in beta mode that allows AppExchange developers the ability to log in to a customer’s organization to aid in the troubleshooting process.

September 21, 2011: New Schema Builder In Winter 2012 Release of Salesforce

Salesforce has been updating its sandbox servers to the new Winter ‘12 release, bringing with it some new developer features including one I’ve been waiting for a long time, a Schema Builder.

August 29, 2011: Salesforce.com Brings Force.com and Database.com To All Your Java Apps

On Friday, Salesforce.com announced the release of the Java Spring Development Kit for Force.com and Database.com.  This means you now have an easy way to connect all of your Spring based Java applications to the Force.com and Database.com platforms.

July 29, 2011: Google Adds New CDN Service Appropriately Titled Page Speed Service

In Google’s never-ending quest to conquer the internet, they announced a new CDN product recently to compete with companies like Akamai and Limelight.

June 14, 2011: Apple Heads To The Cloud

At WWDC last week, Apple announced some interesting enhancements to iOS and Mac OS X, but none quite as interesting as their first real move to the cloud, iCloud.

May 24, 2011: New Tools for Google App Engine Add Some Major Functionality

Recently at Google IO, there were a lot of announcements on new products and services ranging from tablets to music and movie services. Along with those were some less advertised enhancements to the App Engine platform that were discussed in the breakout sessions. These enhancements don’t have the wow factor of the announcements from the keynotes, but if you’re a cloud developer, they’re pretty cool.

April 29, 2011: A Couple Force.com Sites URL Tips

I have been working on more and more Force.com sites lately, and every time I work on one, I learn something new.  Here are a couple of tips I’ve picked up to help make the development and release process go a little bit smoother.

March 11, 2011: A Schema and ERD Generator for Force.com

When developing on the Force.com platform, I often find myself looking for a way of generating an ERD of the data model. That’s where SchemaSpy and the force-metadata-jdbc-driver come into play.